{"id":15623,"date":"2012-08-24T18:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2012-08-24T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:12:03","slug":"paul-ryans-magic-numbers-190-72-1050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15623\/paul-ryans-magic-numbers-190-72-1050\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan&#8217;s Magic Numbers: 190; 72; 1,050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They aren&#8217;t lotto numbers; they are the number of times Paul Ryan&#8217;s name and budget ideas have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard &amp; National Review, and on Fox News, respectively, since the presidential election of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/80076.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>, the unequaled access to conservative opinion leaders came as a direct result of Ryan&#8217;s deliberate strategy to cultivate conservative pundits and think tank-types so that they in turn would promote Ryan&#8217;s ideas to the American public, and ultimately, back onto Ryan&#8217;s colleagues in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>To say the strategy worked is an understatement.\u00a0 To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/80076.html\" target=\"_blank\">read how Ryan did it<\/a> would be time well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They aren&#8217;t lotto numbers; they are the number of times Paul Ryan&#8217;s name and budget ideas have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard &amp; National Review, and on Fox News, respectively, since the presidential election of 2008. According to Politico, the unequaled access to conservative opinion leaders came as a direct result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,928,3781,116,802,3780],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-conservative","tag-ideas","tag-media","tag-paul-ryan","tag-think-tank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15630,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}